December 2024 monthly summary for NVIDIA/doca-sosreport: Focused on stabilizing and improving distro detection accuracy for AlmaLinux to enhance inventory reliability and business value. Delivered a critical bug fix in the policies module that corrects distro identification by ensuring that os_release_file is not a misleading symlink to a file with the same base name and by validating the content of /etc/os-release. This fix reduces misclassification and improves AlmaLinux reporting. Key commit: 14a47309ca3beee2da9e12de39759e3666283d17. Impact: More accurate host inventory, improved reporting reliability for AlmaLinux environments, and lower support overhead from distribution misidentification. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Python policy logic, filesystem path handling, robust validation of system release data, and maintainable, commit-traceable changes.